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by yarou 13y ago
My mistake, I assumed the recipient == submitter.
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by yarou 13y ago
Exactly. And yet, this is at the top of the page. Looks like the guy got all the attention he wanted, plus a bunch of karma.
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Ask HN: What do you look for when choosing a new programming language?
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by yarou 13y ago
I'm really confused by the comments that say the tone of this site is "Hindu nationalist". I see no mention of the word "Hindu" in the entire page. In fact, it's as far from politicized text as possible. Not ev
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by yarou 13y ago
I think fundamentally, people are growing more lonely as we shift from the purely physical realm into the abstract world of the web. You have startups like Grouper trying to solve loneliness, but in reality they may even be exacerbating it.
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by yarou 13y ago
I actually don't find this story all too surprising. What really irked me was the piece on how Japan commodified various aspects of a relationship (i.e. "cuddle cafes"[0], those bar/club places where people pay top dolla
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by yarou 13y ago
Actually, this is exactly why those who mire in poverty have more children. The logic is that more children = safety net in the future. This is usually prevalent in societies and countries without strong institutions. Hmm...
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by yarou 13y ago
Hopefully this game will be good. I've been looking for a decent spacey game like Freelancer, but so far nothing seems remotely close to it. The Discovery mod in particular added a dimension that most modern games lack.
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by yarou 13y ago
Haha, I remember reading this back in the day. While I came from a primarily C background, I have to say that Clojure truly is not only an acceptable lisp, but a refreshingly "modern" language -- in the same sense that Algol was a
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by yarou 13y ago
Very interesting. If you don't mind me asking, how difficult was it to parse the grammar of Lua? I see you mention "Irony", but I've never heard of it. Is it a parser generator?
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by yarou 13y ago
I think "work" is necessary, at least the connotation that implies one has to strive for more or give up something in exchange for a tangible reward. However, work just for the sake of working is unnecessary and detrimental to the
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by yarou 13y ago
As jaded as I am on altruism and human nature, this post gives me a slight glimmer of hope.
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by yarou 13y ago
And yet, you'll find that the position probably pays less than even 1/4 of the value generated. Labor hasn't evolved much since the days of the robber barons. Employment should be a contract between equals, not an instrument
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by yarou 13y ago
Spot on. I think it's important to mention the context of Taleb's philosophy. You have to keep in mind that in certain jobs, like trading, it is fairly plausible that successful traders are plain lucky because all traders eventual
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by yarou 13y ago
Clearly this is a troll account since it was created one hour ago. But I'll take the bait and respond anyway. Yes, the same Europe where millions of people were murdered by their own governments. What about the ethnic cleansing that th
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by yarou 13y ago
This looks really nice. What are the advantages compared to some comparable blogging platforms out there? Couldn't I just use Octopress or Github Pages to achieve similar functionality?
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by yarou 13y ago
Agreed, totally forgot about Metro.
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by yarou 13y ago
I've used awesome before, and I was quite impressed. Once you get the hang of shortcuts, you tend to be vastly more productive than if you were using a traditional or compositing wm. I grew up with a compositing WM, but the transition
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by yarou 13y ago
I agree with your point on commercial and retail banking. I also agree that if banks pivot in the direction of "technology-first", they will succeed in the future. I'm a bit skeptical (perhaps I'm biased in this regard s
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by yarou 13y ago
Disclosure: I work for one of the biggest US investment banks. They fed us this line during training, and often senior leaders who left our company would say the same thing when interviewed on CNBC. This is naïve at best though. Banks are o
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by yarou 13y ago
This is very interesting. In most papers I read during uni, the p-value was always set to 0.10. But I suppose it makes sense to have a more rigorous null hypothesis testing when you are talking about saving lives. I'm curious to see, o
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by yarou 13y ago
Rather than simply have a "looking for hitman" service, DPR would have been wise to have an Assassination Market ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_market ). It's much harder to assign criminal l
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by yarou 13y ago
Perhaps more so when your central bank keeps printing money
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by yarou 13y ago
Once again, another sensationalist piece about Google. Human beings are political creatures. Human beings are also sexual creatures. Is this surprising? No. Then again, it is Slate...
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by yarou 13y ago
> It isn't a shallow comment. It is, because it reeks of irony, cultural chauvinism, and a fundamental Western bias. > Receiving Justice in India is largely a function of gender and caste. Replace gender and caste with money, and
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by yarou 13y ago
"This is not the Holocaust." yet . "This is not the end of the world." yet . I'm sure many Germans and Italians (or any society on the brink of autocratic rule) felt as you do now. But the end result is strikingly
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by yarou 13y ago
Very lucid and interesting post. However, if you look at other communities like Slashdot, a level of civility is enforced by the community, without necessarily stifling unpopular or dissenting viewpoints (at least once upon a time). It beco
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by yarou 13y ago
I don't find the trends to be too surprising. After the major bubbles of the dotcom era and the 2008 financial crisis (I wasn't alive for the LBO bubble), a lot of energy is focused in creative pursuits, rather than those simply e
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by yarou 13y ago
Well, you could extend your argument to state that one of the most important things in Van Gogh's life was to sever his own ear and hand it to a prostitute. Therefore, those who wish to become good painters ought to sever their ear. Th
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by yarou 13y ago
I think the Palantir link is the most plausible, it's startling to see how many companies utilize their technologies (mine does, under the premise of being "AML-compliant"). The end goal of these cretins is to chain men with

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